Category: 2017 January-February

During the oil and gas slowdown the last two years, employees across many sectors of the industry were laid off, wage increases were limited, and many were denied promotions. The brighter side to that unfortunate slowdown was many employees took that as an opportunity to improve their skills by attending seminars, streaming webinars, and brushing up on knowledge that would…
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Taps Technology for the Modern Classroom Experience As oil and gas companies in 2017 face unique challenges in workforce development, education and training providers will be working diligently to continue shaping options for workers that tap into a vast range of technologies designed to accommodate the way people want to learn today. Compounding a reality oil and gas companies have…
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Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, has been a double-edged sword for the U.S. This method of hydrocarbon recovery has allowed the country to become one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, after decades of dependence on foreign oil. The advent of this recovery technique has been a boon to the industry and for consumers at the gas…
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Do not mistake a safety program for a training program. The petroleum industry has made great strides in developing safety programs since the 1970s. One of the greatest improvements is the industry’s recognition of the field employees as experts and realizing in order to develop a functional safety culture the company has to respectfully seek guidance from the field specialist.…
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Future generations are depending on us to keep the American dream alive. For too long we in America have been wasting time blaming the energy industry or the government for failure to adopt a national energy strategy when we each should be responsible for creating the plan. In order to create a plan, energy education should be at the forefront.…
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As the calendar rolled into 4Q16, many companies decided it was finally time to put their non-core assets on the market. The result was a massive deal influx and actual transactional volume – which we had not seen in 2016. After the OPEC meeting, oil swung to the mid-$50 range and, at end of 2016, was continuing to trend upward. This…
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